purple gallinule

1. 1.

   gallinules with showy purplish plumage

   Broadergallinule

   NarrowerEuropean gallinuleAmerican gallinule

Questions about purple gallinule

What does purple gallinule mean?

purple gallinule means "gallinules with showy purplish plumage".

Is purple gallinule a common word?

purple gallinule is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.